Λατρεία

service

Translated by Catharine Roth22 Feb 2005Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 19 words

Translation

[Meaning] servitude for pay.1
Sophocles [in] Ajax [writes]: "[what] services she performs in place of what an enviable [status]!"2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Λατρεία· δουλεία ἐπὶ μισθῷ. Σοφοκλῆς Αἴας· λατρείας ἀνθ' ὅσου ζήλου τρέφει.

Betacode
*latrei/a: doulei/a e)pi\ misqw=|. *sofoklh=s *ai)/as: latrei/as a)nq' o(/sou zh/lou tre/fei. 

Notes (2)

  1. 1cf. lambda 149. Similar glossing, variously, in other lexica. (Cognate words at lambda 145, lambda 147, lambda 148.) ↩
  2. 2Sophocles, Ajax 503 (web address 1); cf. zeta 56. ↩

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Revision history3 revisions · last 3 Apr 2013
  1. upgraded link — Catharine Roth
  2. another note; more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
  3. tweaked tr; another x-ref; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — Catharine Roth

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